National Security

 MONTPELIER, VT – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) met with representatives from groups supporting asylum seekers across Vermont. The meeting, which included representatives from the Community Asylum Seekers Project of Vermont, the Chittenden Asylum Seekers Assistance Network, and Vermont Immigrant Assistance at Vermont Law…

The bill comes after the Senate voted to repeal 1991, 2002 Iraq AUMFs WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today introduced the Accountability for Endless Wars Act, legislation to terminate the Authorizations for Use…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today voted in support of legislation led by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iraq. These authorizations grant broad power to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a hearing held today by the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) addressed Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, on the surge of migrants at the northern border of the United States, in particular…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Earlier this week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) returned from a congressional delegation to Mexico to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his cabinet to discuss maintaining the strong partnership between the United States and Mexico.   Led by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), the…